The Illinois basketball team is back in the NCAA Tournament in part because of the play of dynamic freshman Kasparas Jakucionis. The dangerous 6-foot-6, 205-pound guard averaged 15.0 points and 5. ...

The Illini returned to SC Derby – the team Tomislav and Zvonimir Ivisic played for – and landed 6-foot-9 forward David ...

There was a time earlier this season when Illinois guard Kasparas Jakucionis was a top-five lock in the 2025 NBA Draft, with ...

Kasparas Jakucionis, Egor Demin, and other top European prospects made the move from club basketball in Europe - Barcelona ...

Summary: Jakucionis is a slick shot-creator with a creative passing gene and a fearless scoring ability, carving up defenses ...

The Miami Heat's regular season ends this week. With a record below .500, many are beginning to focus on the NBA Draft. The Heat are projected to have two firs ...

Kasparas Jakucionis is a collegiate player for the Illinois Fighting Illini men’s basketball team in the Big Ten Conference. Bailey is in his freshman season and plays as a guard, as of March 2025.

The only focus is tomorrow’s game against Xavier, and that’s it.” Illinois’ Kasparas Jakucionis, right, shoots over Maryland’s Ja’Kobi Gillespie on Jan. 23, 2025, in Champaign.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Kentucky guard Koby Brea (4) handles the ball against Illinois guard Kasparas Jakucionis (32) during the ...

Jakicionis was born in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius in May of 2006. Vilnius has about 600,000 people and is the most populous city in the so-called Baltic states of Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia ...